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Pete Rose will be inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame this weekend with a series of special events. He's known as the Hit King, but here are some things you might not have known about Rose's hitting prowess: The first of those games came in his third season, in 1965 facing the New York Mets, which included three singles and a home...

By the spring of 1909, Orville and Wilbur Wright had shown in a series of European exhibitions that powered flight was real and safe. When they returned to the United States, their hometown of Dayton threw a party like it never had, before or since. On June 17-18, 1909, the entire city stopped to celebrate the brothers in a massive outpouring...

By the spring of 1909, Orville and Wilbur Wright had shown in a series of European exhibitions that powered flight was real and safe. When they returned to the United States, their hometown of Dayton threw a party like it never had, before or since. On June 17-18, 1909, the entire city stopped to celebrate the brothers in a massive outpouring...

The Dayton area will see significant changes to its higher education leadership in the next 14 months. Dayton, Miami, Wittenberg and Wright State will all have new presidents in place by July 1, 2017. That's an unusual amount of changeover for these influential positions. The first 118 presidents at eight four-year colleges and universities...

Ohio has designated March 19-25 as Spring Severe Weather Awareness Week. During the week, the state encourages residents to learn about storm threats and how to protect themselves. Here are views of the Miami Valley during 15 recent storms classified by the Ohio Insurance Institute as some of the most costly in insurance claims in recent...

A reward is being offered to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of the man accused of stabbing a 7-year-old girl on the playground at World of Wonder school. Surveillance video released of stabbing incident
School board mulls fencing at school, a reward for arrest
Search continues for male suspect&nbsp...

News that authorities are testing skeletal remains discovered in Greene County as a possible match to a missing Middletown woman, Lindsay Bogan, has reminded the Dayton area about the dozens who remain missing. According to an Ohio Attorney General's Office database of missing persons, 99 people are missing in the region. Here are seven of...

Ohio State is eyeing the University of Miami's record of six first-round NFL Draft selections, set in 2004, when this year's draft begins on Thursday. Teams choosing Buckeyes will add to more than 1,000 all-time selections of Ohio college players in the NFL and AFL drafts. Here are some things you might not have known about Ohio colleges'...

The Cleveland Browns participated in their first NFL Draft in 1950, when they made 31 picks. In the years since, they have drafted a total of 977 players from 225 different colleges, schools ranging from Tufts to Dayton to Oklahoma to Ohio State. With the 2016 NFL Draft beginning Thursday, we pulled data about the Browns' draft history from...

The Cincinnati Bengals participated in their first NFL Draft in 1968, when they made 41 picks. In the years since, the Bengals have drafted a total of 612 players from 193 different colleges, schools ranging from Tuskegee to James Madison to BYU to Ohio State. With the 2016 NFL Draft coming on April 28, we pulled data about the Bengals' draft...

The 13-county Dayton region experienced 179 tornadoes from 1950 to 2015, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They ranged from massive to miniscule (as far as tornadoes go). Here's what we learned by breaking down the data on those 179 incidents. Warren County has experienced 22 tornadoes since...

When the Dayton Dragons played their Fifth Third Field opener in 2007, the high temperature was 35 degrees. Just the next year, the high was 72. A similar swing is set for Saturday, when the Dragons will play their first home game. The forecast high of 39 degrees would be 33 degrees colder than last year. But 39 degrees still wouldn't the...

Wright State named its newest basketball coach on Tuesday, introducing former South Dakota State coach Scott Nagy. Nagy becomes the 54th men's basketball coach at the University of Dayton, Miami University and Wright State. That group started in 1905, when Miami named Carroll Hoel its first coach (called the "manager" in team records)...

The Dayton metropolitan area is home to little more than 800,000 people. That's according to the recently released U.S. Census estimates from July 2015 of populations throughout the country and Puerto Rico. What do the data tell us? (Note: Population estimates are from July 1 of each year.) DAYTON IS THE NATION'S 72nd-LARGEST METRO AREA Dayton's...

UD Arena has hosted 109 NCAA tournament games, by far the most of any venue. That means numerous moments of heartache, exhilaration and just plain fascination. Heading into the latest edition of the First Four, on Tuesday and Wednesday at UD Arena, we looked at the particulars of those 109 games to find some key points of interest. RELATED...

While all parts of the region felt the sting of the economic downturn, area counties have seen mixed results in their job totals since, according to one measurement. Three counties in the seven-county region - Warren, Greene and Butler - experienced growth in the number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance from 2000-15, according to...

Ohio's economy has worked for nearly a decade to overcome the setbacks of the economic downturn. Workers in Montgomery County, in particular, have been stung. The county saw the state's third-worst drop in median household income from 1999 to the period of 2010-14, according to U.S. Census survey data adjusted for inflation to 2014 dollars...

Ohio's top official in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs retired Thursday after investigators recommended that he be removed from federal service. That development was big news, in part because of the large number of veterans who call Ohio home. According to VA data, there were about 866,000 veterans living in Ohio as of Sept. 30, 2014...

Homicides in area prisons have been rare in recent years, data show as officials continue to investigate the death of an inmate at the Lebanon Correctional Institution that occurred after an altercation with another inmate. From 2000-14, there were three incidents involving inmates killing other inmates at facilities in the region...

A fatal Clark County plane crash on Sunday is the first in the region this year and the first to occur since two people were killed in a crash last October in Warren County. That and other facts about Ohio's fatal accidents come from a study of National Transportation Safety Board data. In November 2015, a private charter jet crashed...